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Meet Irmandy Wicaksono and other MIT researchers whose work with textiles weaves handcrafts with new materials and digital technologies.
Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks to Infra Magazine about his work, which blends electronics and textiles.
Castrol supports the AstroAnt Payload Program, a robotic swarm designed for tasks on spacecraft, rovers, and landers.
Congratulations to the six fellowship recipients!
Media Lab SEI’s 2024 microgravity flight features 37 parabolas and projects focused on health in space, walking in zero gravity, and more!
In an interview with Textile Technology Source, Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks about the use of AI in the textiles industry.
It was recognized in the Plus: Architecture +Innovation category
Media Lab alum Alexander Reben has been named as OpenAI’s first artist in residence.
Convergence: Artistic Exploration from Nature to SocietyNARLabs, Taipei, Taiwan May 10 - August 10, 2024 Guided by the Taiwa…
Award recipients are selected based on their academic achievements and dedication to their graduate research works.
A one-month residency in Shenzhen to scale research with mass manufacturing for affordability or unprecedented magnitudes
Media Lab alumni Ziv Epstein and Alexander Reben joined a panel discussion on the creative future of generative AI.
A number of Media Lab researchers and alumni are included in the cohort.
In March 2024, we deployed this system alongside National Geographic Explorers and professors Marina Arbetman and Cristian A. Villagra Gil …
Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks about incorporating his research on interactive textiles into the Living Knitwork Pavilion.
Our fifth day in Lanzarote was our biggest data collection day.
This morning we entered and explored our first lava tube at Cueva de la Paloma.
In January 2024, members of the Media Lab traveled to Fribourg, Switzerland to conduct a workshop on sensing, interactions, and augmentation
An evolving list of IAP activities hosted by members of the Media Lab community in collaboration with other MIT departments during 2024.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Living Knitwork Pavilion building and installation during 2023 Burning Man: ANIMALIA, Black Rock City, Nevada.
Learn about the Living Knitwork Pavilion: an interactive architectural installation that combined textile arts + engineering at Burning Man.
Media Labbers, Cassandra Lee and David Ramsay, received honorable mentions for the 2023 Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize.
The series was initially inspired by the work of Ernst Haeckel.
Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono reflects on bringing The Living Knitwork Pavilion to Burning Man.
Congratulations to the Media Lab community members and projects honored in Fast Company's 2023 Innovation by Design Awards!
On BBC’s The Forum, host Iszi Lawrence tries a tool developed by Media Lab researchers that tests users' ability to detect deepfakes.
Castrol membership supports the AstroAnt Payload Program.
Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks to Society of Craft about his work, which blends engineering with fabric arts.
These five women at the MIT Media Lab are advancing aerospace science and research, driven by a love of our home planet.
Irmandy Wicaksono from the Media Lab's Response Environments group discusses innovations and ancient wisdoms to be found in arts & crafts.
David Nuñez, an alum of the Media Lab’s Personal Robots research group, takes MIT Technology Review on a tour of the re-imagined Museum.
Images from the Living Knitwork Pavilion unveiling event on Wednesday, August 2 from 7-9pm at the MIT Saxon Lawn.
Researchers from the Media Lab and collaborators begin their second trip to Svalbard, a remote land of wind, ice, and beauty.
The research team was awarded for their proposal titled: "Modernizing photovoltaic textiles for scalability and wearable applications.”
We're so proud of everything you've accomplished here, and can't wait to see what you do next.
Joe Paradiso talks to host Susan Kish about high-energy physics, wearables, electronic music, science fiction, and the metaverse.
Media Lab collaborators show that debris from urban beehives can be used to profile the microbiome of a city.
The Institute for Futures Technologies (IFT) is a new space within the Pôle Léonard de Vinci in Paris (La Défense), which aims to…
The Road to 2050, a six-part docuseries from The Franklin Institute, examines the ways that today's technology will shape the future.
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical Monitoring
Alum Alexander Reben describes his experience making art with algorithms and considers what the future of the field may bring.
Alumni Nan-Wei Gong and Anirudh Sharma will deliver the 2022 C. Ashton Newhall Endowed Lecture at Elon University.
Joe Paradiso talks to Data Nation podcast hosts Liberty Vittert and Scott Tranter about the metaverse - what it is and what it isn't.
The following winners and honorable mentions include members of the Media Lab community, and were selected from more than 70 nominees.
Ali Shtarbanov + Juliana Cherston of the Lab's Responsive Environments group each won top prizes in the Create the Future Design Contest.
We're thrilled to welcome our friends at the Museum to Kendall Square!
The honorees will be included in the October 2022 print issue of Fast Company Magazine.
Alum Mihir Sarkar looks back at the 10 years since his dissertation defense, and reflects on both the joys and the challenges of that time.
Congratulations to Ali Shtarbanov and Irmandy Wicaksono!
MIT researchers created a smart textile linked up with a machine learning system.
Researchers develop a comfortable, form-fitting fabric that recognizes its wearer’s activities, like walking, running, and jumping.
Two projects led by Irmandy Wicaksono of the Responsive Environments group, with collaborators, have been honored as finalists.
Wicaksono researches and invents electronic textiles and garments with a wide range of applications.
Congratulations to all of the recipients of this year's competitive fellowships administered by the MIT Office of Graduate Education (OGE)!
I’d like to continue to make these connections, between traditional practices in my country and the things I’ve learned abroad.
Congratulations to project team researchers Irmandy Wicaksono, Don Derek Haddad, and collaborator Loni Landon!
Inspired by the human ear, a new acoustic fabric converts audible sounds into electrical signals.
Check out this list of cyberart projects compiled by The Boston Globe, which includes work by alum Alexander Reben and Prof. Ekene Ijeoma.